Emily_Dickenson_And_A_Poem

Emily Dickenson And A Poem HEART, we will forget him! You and I, to-night! You may forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light. When you have done, pray tell me, 5 That I my thoughts may dim; Haste! lest while you’re lagging, I may remember him! In this poem, Emily Dickinson is expressing her way of recovering after someone or something she loved is no longer around. She divides the poem into two perspectives: those of her heart and of her mind. She speaks to her heart about forgetting the “warmth he gave” while she claims she will “forget the light”. A person’s heart is usually characterized as something that feels passion and emotions, therefore directing the loss of his warmth to her heart, instead of her mind, which is most commonly associated with the intellectual side of a relationship. The “light” she speaks of could be interpreted as the visual image of this lost person or thing, and also as the intellectual attachment to someone. In the last stanza of the heart, forget, mind, warmth, poem, emily, while, way, tell, speaks, something, someone, pray, person, move, loved, loss, light, intellectual, him, gave, forgetting, feels, emotions, done, you’re, working, visual, two, together, to-night thoughts, thing, therefore, tells